{"id":12342,"date":"2013-07-25T16:58:28","date_gmt":"2013-07-25T15:58:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/?p=5498"},"modified":"2013-07-25T16:58:28","modified_gmt":"2013-07-25T15:58:28","slug":"what-are-infauxgraphics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/2013\/07\/what-are-infauxgraphics.html","title":{"rendered":"What Are Infauxgraphics?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Infographics<\/a> are visual representations of information<\/a>, data<\/a> or knowledge<\/a> intended to present complex information quickly and clearly. They are incredibly popular in social media, because they work<\/a>. Here are some of the favorite infographics of Fast Company magazine<\/a>. And there are, of course, infographics about infographics<\/a> \u2013 even interactive ones<\/a>.<\/p>\n

But what turns an infographic into an infauxgraphic<\/em>?\u00a0If it’s ugly, silly, misguided, or misleading.<\/p>\n

Ugly<\/h3>\n

Some infauxgraphics are just really ugly<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"ugly<\/a><\/p>\n

\"ugly<\/a><\/p>\n

Silly<\/h3>\n

Some infauxgraphics may just be silly<\/a>\u00a0or funny<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"Check<\/p>\n

Misguided<\/h3>\n

Infauxgraphics may be misguided, and fail in their mission by concentrating on graphic design rather than information design<\/a>. This is by far the most common problem: the design is visually arresting, but gets in the way of understanding, using pointless or uninteresting facts. Here\u2019s a great spoof adapted from a piece by Phil Gyford<\/a>\u00a0— click to see the original in its full glory.<\/p>\n

\"infauxgraphic<\/a><\/p>\n

Misleading<\/h3>\n

Worst of all \u2013 and heavily used in any area that is even mildly controversial \u2013 an infauxgraphic may be unintentionally or deliberately misleading<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Please be merciful to us all \u2013 if you have to make infographics, please make sure they\u2019re not infauxgraphics!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Infauxgraphics are infographics that are ugly, silly, misguided, or misleading. Here are some links and examples.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5494,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[15],"tags":[602,606,741,742,967,1094],"class_list":["post-12342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dataviz-2","tag-infauxgraphic","tag-infographic","tag-misguided","tag-misleading","tag-silly","tag-ugly"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/infauxgraphic-banner-1.jpg?fit=690%2C390&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3X9RF-3d4","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12342\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}